The daily race with Time is interrupted from time to time, by cyclically recurring holidays and their associated customs, ceremonies and rituals. They're like a deep breath of fresh air filling our lungs. The Great Lent – a time of deep reflection on the sense of existence, and of contact with the secret of Life. In the darkness a light appears, reaching to the deepest recesses of heart, and filling it with bliss. This is the time of regaining hope that our life does have a sense to it. There are many Lenten hymns that penetrate neither the matter and structure of evangelical events, nor their dogmatic/intellectual sense, and express primarily emotions and feelings. Despite the dramaturgy of the.......more